CENTIPEDE 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae setaceous. 
Palpi two, jointed, or formed of many articulations. 
Feet numerous ; placed on each side of the body, two to 
every segment. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Scolopendra morsitans. S. pedibus utrinque viginti, oculis 
octo. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 3016. 
Legs twenty on each side ; eyes eight 
in number. 
Japuruca. Marcgr. Bras. p. 253. 
Centipede. ..... Degeer Ins. f . p. 563. pi. 43. f. 1. 
Catesb. Carol. 3. p. 2. pi. 3. Seb. 
Mus. 1. pi. 81. fig. 3, 4. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 6. p. 503. pi. 136. 
This is one among the many venemous creatures 
which infest the warmer parts of the globe, and, 
except the scorpion, is more to be dreaded than 
any of the insect tribe. The size of this species of 
centipede, independent of its sting, would render it 
an object of terror, since its long body measures 
nearly ten inches ; which, together with its many 
